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”AI is what XR has been waiting for,” says podcast co-host Rony Abovitz, founder of Mako Robotics, Magic Leap, and the AI startup, Synthbee. ”AI is what everything has been waiting for,” adds co-host Charlie Fink, who writes a weekly column on AI and XR for Forbes. The other co-host is entertainment technology exec, Ted Schilowitz, co-founder of Red Camera. The podcast starts with a hot take on the week’s top tech news, followed by industry guests.
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This week we welcome Naeem Talukdar, CEO Moonvalley AI, whose company is building a "clean" generative video model, trained exclusively on licensed video content. In the news, Niantic is selling its Pokemon Go business. The failed Humane Pin, a great idea with shockingly bad execution, is sold to HP for $116M for parts and patents, and Microsoft introduced Majorana 1, a new quantum computing technology it is developing with academic researchers. Naeem Talukdar, CEO Moonvalley AI, explains the fascinating quest he and his colleagues, many veterans of Deepmind and OpenAI, seek to build a video model that can supercharge CGI high-definition video pipelines for the film industry. Moonvalley is in the process of refining their model with sister company Aesteria Studios, for release in the next few months. Aesteria is led by Bryn Mooser, founder of RYOT (sold to Verizon) and streaming service XTR. They helped source the licensed video content the Moonvalley AI model is trained on, and are developing advanced workflows for its use.
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Our guest this week is Ann Hand, CEO of Super League, a brand agency specializing in game platforms like Roblox and Fortnite. The news this week starts with an ironic twist: first people who are losing jobs to AI are people who work in tech. Also, tech's super bowl commercials barely made a sound. Super League started as a platform for eSports marketing but Ann Hand has guided it to become one of the leading brand marketers in spatial computing, otherwise referred to as The Metaverse. Users are spending more and more of their time on these platforms. The company recently announced it was being acquired by Infinite Reality, which has raised over $3 Billion,
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Charlie, Ted, and Rony welcome Sean Mann, CEO of RP1, whose Metaverse browser can support hundreds of thousands of unique users in a spatial environment. It's earning week in the tech world and the outlook for 2025, after two years of hypergrowth, is downright conservative. Love for Meta's money printing machine continued, despite continued losses on its Metaverse ambitions. Apple's discontinuing AR glasses. Or are they? And Alexa is back. Using RP1's browser, users can share spatial environments, including 1:1 maps of the physical world, on any browser, including VR. Charlie says the MR demo of RP1 that he showed him on Thursday was the most like the mixed reality described in "Snow Crash" he has ever seen.
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Charlie, Rony & Ted are guestless today. It happens. It was a busy news week. First up, Deepseek. Their model may have been trained on OpenAI. Stealing from the thieves, he called it. Big financing deals we announced this week: Softbank is investing $500 M in Skild Robotics, and Eleven Labs (AI Voices) raised $250 M. Marcus Brownlee takes the new Samsung MR headset for a test drive on YouTube. The copyright office released guidance for AI generated content, offering it protection under the law provided a human is using AI as a tool, not an author. The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed on Google Maps. What about New Mexico?
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Charlie and Ted welcome Elizabeth Baron, who at Ford Motor Company led Immersive Simulation for Product Development, where she combined design, engineering and manufacturing digital twins together for a holistic review of vehicles. She then moved to the University of Nebraska iEXCEL, where she is leading Intelligent Immersive Simulation to bring AI-based Digital Twins into healthcare. It was a big news week as Trump was inaugurated and had tech on his mind. TikTok got a temporary reprieve, and earned the company's thanks. Trump introduced a $500 B data center deal with OpenAI's Sam Altman, Oracle's Larry Ellison, and Softbank's Mayoshi Son, and they expressed their admiration and gratitude. Not present: Elon Musk and Microsoft. Google buys HTC Vive. Sort of. Elizabeth, is Founder, Immersionary Enterprises, LLC, as well as Senior Advisor, Intelligent Immersive Simulation, UNMC iEXCEL. Formerly Global Lead, Immersive Reality for Ford Motor Company Product Development. She joined us for an in-depth look at Ford automotive simulation and how the University of Nebraska Medical Center at iEXCEL is teaching, performing research and allowing interdisciplinary collaboration within its med school using simulation, AI and XR.
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This week the hosts welcome Ashley Crowder, CEO of Vntana, which manages CAD drawings and other 3D assets for companies in industries as diverse as fashion and concrete. The news segment was focused on the imminent shut down of TikTok, and rumors Elon will announce a deal to buy the platform before the deadline Sunday night. Biden mentioned tech oligarchs in his farewell address to the nation, and we talk about them, too. Ashley's company has been around twelve years, first focused on consumer marketing and live events before pivoting to solving companies' problems managing and distributing their 3D content. Ashely is also a pioneering female founder, of which there are still precious few today.
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This week our guest is esteemed journalist Dean Takahasi, dean of tech writers, who helps us analyze this year's CES. News topics on our minds were the LA fires, which have personally affected Charlie and Ted, Meta's big announcement on content moderation, free speech, and Jensen Huang's Nvidia keynote, which promised a new AI-capable personal computer on the edge, and their plans to power a robotics revolution worth trillions. Charlie and Ted found CES a bit disappointing, especially the XR area, which was dominated by Xreal. Meta was also there for the first time, promoting Ray Bans and their MR Quest 3 headset.
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Charlie, Ted, and Rony have a wide-ranging preview of CES 2025 and what to expect from the coming year from Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association which owns CES. To be sure, we'll be seeing a lot more AI in everything. Mobility, robotics, drones, wearables and healthtech are going to have a strong presence this year as well. Gary has a new book, Pivot or Die, which takes a look at the boom in productivity that companies are going to experience with AI. He is optimistic about the potential for the new administration to create a business environment with reduced regulation and greater freedom to pursue M&A, which will stimulate venture investments in new technologies. This, Gary says, does not mean no regulation, it means the right kind of regulation.
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Charlie, Rony, and Ted are out in full force to greet the world's foremost tech consultant and professor Shelly Palmer, CEO of the Palmer Group. We hit the news quickly, Perplexity raises $500M at a $9B valuation, ChatGPT under assault, AI's coming "clean." Our wide ranging conversation with Shelley was focused on some important trends in AI and XR, and especially the long process of integrating AI into company workflow. It's going to take time and training, perhaps more than five years for that to be happy, Shelly said. Other 2024 events we looked back on: the ongoing AI revolution, the crypto run up, agentic AI, the possible TikTok ban, AI & XR, and the end of the media business as we know it. Audiences are on different screens doing different things. The implications are staggering. It decided the election.
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This week Charlie and Rony welcome Russell Patton, Product Manager for the Snap Spectacles AR headset. It's a news week rich with AI news from OpenAI, Google, and others. OpenAI suffered a major outage on Wednesday, which may be related, according to Rony, to the theft of weighted models from its database. We thought it was related to stress on the system from the introduction of video generator Sora. Samsung gave the press a look at their upcoming Project Moohan on which they collaborated with Google on an AR OS for Android, and Qualcomm for its new microprocessor. Rony is in his element as discuss the new Spectacles, and Snap's strategy, with Patton.
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This week Charlie and Ted are joined by Michael Murray, CEO of Kopin (NASDQ: KOPN), a leading developer of microdisplay and optical technologies for military and enterprise applications. Meta needs a hit entertainment franchise for its platforms, so they've made a deal with filmmaker James Cameron, to make one for them. With Elon Musk at the elbow of the President, does his competitor, OpenAI, who Musk is suing, have anything to worry about? Xreal released their new Xreal One Series of assisted reality smart glasses, or screen extenders, which now feature one touch screen anchoring.
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In this week's pod the hosts discussed big tech's investment in Trump, Australia's move to regulate social media, and Google's accidental preview of Jarvis, which will be the Android answer to AI Siri, and may even launch sooner. They also highlighted a company called Mawari, which is working on tokenizing streaming XR content, aiming to simplify the distribution of spatial content without the need for apps. Our guest is Alex Masharov, founder of Higgsfield, who shared his journey from Russia to Silicon Valley. He discussed his previous success with an AI company sold to Snap, which developed real-time face filters that went viral. Now, with Higgsfield, Alex aims to revolutionize video content creation by focusing on personalized, AI-generated dramas.
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This week the hosts are in full force. Rony talks about his AI startup, Synthbee. It's earnings week, so we got a look at just how much money tech companies are making and their projected investments in AI. OpenAI's ChatGPT search is coming for Google. Inbrain Neuroelectronics raised $50M, and Spot AI raised $31M to turn those janky security cameras into AI-driven video assistants. Our guest is Shara Senderoff, Co-Founder of Futureverse.
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This week our guest is Deniz Özgür, co-founder, co-CEO, Spacerunners. Space Runners is a fashion-tech platform that operates at the intersection of digital fashion, blockchain technology, and the metaverse. Deniz was named a Forbes 30 under 30 CEO last year. Spacerunners uses AI to help brands bring their products to new markets, like the Metaverse. Rony is off for the Jewish holiday Sukkot. Slow news week, unless you're Perplexity AI search, doubling your valuation with another $500 M raise. Microsoft's Army HoloLens, or IVAS, continues its slow death. In another defense story that should surprise no one, the USAF is recruiting from the Drone Racing League, an acknowledgment that the Top Gun of the future may not be piloting a plane.
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This week our guest is Joaquin Cuenca Abela, co-founder and CEO of Freepik. Rony is off for the Jewish holiday, Sukkot. Earlier in the week, he launched his new company SynthBee with $20 million dollars of VC money. Also in the news, Nvidia enters software with a high-performing open source AI model, competing with its biggest customers. Our sponsor Zappar now has got a deep-pocketed backer with an exit strategy, Infinite Reality. Freepik CEO Joaquin Cuenca Abela joins us to share the story of his company, Freepik, which started out as an ad-supported search site for free pictures. Today Freepik makes around $100M a year in subscription revenues from their seven hundred and fifty million month unique visitors. For the past two years, Freepik has been leaning heavily into generative AI, and is adding new features, like text-to-video, which he hinted may be coming soon. Freepik hit our radar last year when it acquired the AI upscaling tool Magnific.
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This week the hosts are here in full force to welcome Justin Maier, co-founder and CEO of Civitai. Elon Musk of Tesla revealed of the Robotaxi and its accompanying Robobus and Optimus robots. The nobel prize in Physics went to John Hopfield and Geoff Hinton, the AI Scientist who "retired from Google" warning the NY Times about the dangers of AGI. RIP Spacetop computer with its wearable AR monitor. Edward Berger’s immersive short film Submerged is now available on Apple’s Vision Pro. Justin Maier explains how Civitai is about to revolutionize generative AI content creation with an enhanced, consolidated workflow which will run on their Buzz token. You can see why Andressen invested in this young AI company.
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Ted and Charlie welcome Antony Batt, Neville Spiteri, co-founders of Wevr, creators of "The Blu," one of the first experiences created for the HTC Vive in 2016. Rony is off for the holiday (Happy New Year to those who celebrate). In the news, Future Trash, an LA creative studio, scores $5M to make experiences for Fortnite. Runware AI Raises $3M for super fast AI image generation. Infinite Realty buys Super League. Antony and Neville give a VR history lesson as they are also genuine VR OGs, having survived not one but two "VR winters." Today Wevr is thriving, and more focused on location-based VR.
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Charlie, Rony and Ted welcome Yonatan Tal, CEO of Supersocial. First up is the flurry of announcements from Meta Connect, including the unveiling of their see-through AR headset, dubbed Orion, and more broad updates about AI. Rony shares intimate details of his conversation with Mark Zuckerberg at the prestigious Allen & Company invitation-only in Sun Valley. Yonatan Tal shares details of his Metaverse construction studio, Supersocial, and how they make Roblox experiences. The company is a combination of an agency and a Roblox game developer, making it a sought-after partner for big brands seeking to reach that prized youth audience.
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Ted and Charlie are Rony-less but happily dive into a busy newsweek, which featured new headsets from Snap and HTC, a $230 M raise for World Labs, which is focused on generating 3D AI, for worlds and assets. Also in the news Palmer Lucky to the rescue, and a Neuralink breakthrough. John Attanassio and Luisa Huang, co-founders of Toonstar, join us to share their nine year journey to success as an AI-assisted animation company, specializing in YouTube and social media. Their series, Stephen and Parker, a collaboration with TikTok megastar Parker James, gets tens of millions views - and dollars - on YouTube.
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This week all three hosts are back in force with a great guest, Zhen Feng, Head of International for Roblox. Rony and Ted talk about a new hush-hush optics technology for XR which they believe is coming to headsets soon. It's a slow news week, but we did talk about iOs 18, Apple Intelligence (or lack thereof), and Google Shopping's virtual try-on. Zhen Fengs shares her unique journey from Microsoft to early Facebook, where she spent 13 years, and now her role at Roblox, which made us all want to go work there.
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This week it's Ted's turn to be too busy, but Charlie and Rony are in fine form, welcoming Liam Broza, CTO of Infinite Reality. In the news, funding for AI startups big and small, including Magic AI, Story Protocol, Miris, and Gen-AI animation app, Viggle. Liam explains how Infinite Reality is turning the browser into a metaverse streaming platform.
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Liam Broza is the Chief Technology Officer for Infinite Reality (iR), an innovation company powering the next generation of digital media and ecommerce through AI and immersive technologies. Liam leads the company’s platform team building iR Engine, a no-code cutting-edge spatial web platform that empowers creators and brands, regardless of technical ability, to build immersive web experiences with ease.
Liam has spent the last 15 years working at the intersection of spatial computing, computer vision, and data sovereignty. Liam co-founded, expanded, and ultimately led Ethereal Engine, a creator of end-to-end frameworks for web-first, social immersive experiences, to its successful $75 million acquisition by Infinite Reality.
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This week we're joined by Ryan Chapman, CEO of Motive, focused on business applications of VR. We start with the state of the entertainment business, where Charlie throws around wildly inaccurate numbers to make the point that the music has stopped for the television networks and cable channels like MTV, which are about to be chopped up and sold for parts as they continue to hemorrhage viewers to Roblox, Fortnite, and TikTok. New AR glasses are coming from Meta and Snap next month. Oh, and there's not going to be a GTA VR game [cue: loud applause]. Ryan Chapman, CEO of Motive, breaks down their unique approach to developing VR applications for training workers.
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This week the three hosts are here in full force as Rony returns from vacation. Now that a federal judge ruled that Google is a monopolist, the question is what to do about it. Forbidding them from buying distribution is one thing, but now people are talking about forcing them to spin off their browser business. Speaking of Google, they've released new AI image generators, and they are quite good and totally free. Grok-2 is now available for X premium subscribers. It can also generate images. Starlink competitor AST is taking flight - on SpaceX. The other Groq (with a "q") is a semiconductor startup that raised $640M series D. Chips are expensive, but everyone is eyeing Nvidia's market share. This week our guest is Akash Nigam, CEO of Genies, which is focused on Avatars, which he sees as the full expression of AI and the Metaverse.
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Google's guilty of monopoly practices, but the result will be unclear for some time. Elon Musk continues to go bonkers while raking in trillions, nonetheless, he is suing people who don't like him, like former advertisers and others unhappy with the lack of moderation on their platform. Meta shuttered Echo Arena, and now they're shuttering the studio that makes it, Ready at Dawn, which they acquired in 2020. Our guest is Val Vacante, VP of Solutions Innovation for Dentsu Advertising. She is based in Austin and advises the SXSW festival on programming. Val shares Dentsu's innovative approaches to problematic categories like retail, where many companies are in desperate need of reinvention.
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This week our guest is Kerestell Smith, creator of Gorilla Tag VR and founder of Another Axiom. Rony is on a farm with no Internet. In the news Canva surprises no one with its acquisition of Gen-AI startup Leonardo.ai. Congrats to Hedra AI text-to-voice, which produces lip-synced short video; they raised $10M. Meta reported earnings Weds. Revenue is up a whopping 22%. Our guest Kerestell Smith shares his extraordinary journey, from being an early VR fan and Echo Arena champion to developing Gorilla Tag VR on Unity while he continued his 9-5 corporate job. Kerestell shares the secrets of Gorilla Tag's success: its revolutionary arm locomotion. It is the most popular game on Quest, earning over $100M. Kerestell digs into spatial design principles and his philosophy about virtual reality experiences.
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This week our guest is neuroscientist Dr. Cody Rall. Rony's working his super-secret day job (an AI startup). Top of the news is OpenAI's Search GPT, which is now a close beta (you can sign up); AI start-up Cohere valued at $5.5 B in their latest round. There are more than 20 AI unicorns - startups valued at more than $1B. Elon Musk has a supercomputer cluster in Memphis, and no idea (yet) where the power is coming from. Meta is in the news (constantly). This week their biggie is the release of powerful open source Llama 3.1 AI LLM. Both Reality Labs and Magic Leap saw layoffs. Dr. Rall joins us to talk about psychiatric treatments with BCI, and other methods for healing, and even augment, the brain.
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Charlie and Rony go Tedless this week with Sarah Nagy, founder and CEO of Seek AI, which brings AI to datasets that can be queried with natural language processing and other AI applications. This week's news includes funding for 3D company Jigspace, whose demos are bundled with Apple Vision Pro and tablets. Artificial Agency raised $16M for AI NPCs, and Haiper AI introduces eight second text-to-video gen-AI. Sarah Nagy is a "quant" and data scientist who founded Seek to help companies extract maximum insight and value from their existing data.
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Another big news week finds AMD snapping up Silo AI for $655M. Captions lip dub co raises $60M. Odyssey AI out of stealth with hi-res gen-AI. Infinite Reality Raises $350M, Acquires LandVault in stock deal. Apple is launching the Iphone 16 with AI this fall, but Siri won't be out until Spring 2025. Samsung includes Bixby in its new launch. Our guest is Chandra Devam, CEO of Arismd, a ten year old company that created technology for X-Ray vision.
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This week the news was all about AI, music labels sue AI music generators Suno and Udio. Etched raises $120M to make AI Chips. Emergence AI scores $97.2M to make AI agents for white-collar work. We share our hot takes on Augmented World Expo, which wrapped last week. Tony, a true XR OG and an old friend, joined Rony in the AWE Hall of Fame last week. We're talking about art, music, copyrights, problems in Hollywood, and the responsibilities (or lack thereof) of American companies.
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This 200th episode of "This Week in XR" is recorded with a live audience on AWE's Expo Stage on June 20, 2024. This is the 15th edition of the largest XR conference and expo in the world. We invited five guests who have never been on our show, AWE Program director Sonya Haskins, developer and blogger, Tony Vitillo, Cosmo Scharf, founder of VRLA, and Jenni Ogden, founder of Eye-Q Productions, which specializes in volumetric capture. We shared TWIXR's 2020 origin story, our views of the 15th show, our personal XR journeys, which included Sonya's touching and dramatic tale of self-discovery. We are joined midway by the very first guest, Sarah Hill, founder and CEO of Healium. She's a former broadcaster with an air of professionalism we hoped would rub off on us. Then Andrea Lowery of AWE brought us a cake! Be sure to listen to the end to hear our predictions for AWE 2028.
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This week is show #199. Our guest is Jeri Ellsworth, CEO and Co-Founder of Tilt Five. Next week we'll record show #200 in front of a live audience at AWE in Long Beach, CA. This week we review Apple AI (Apple Intelligence), their cross-platform AI implementation. Also in the news, Mistral raises $600 M to compete with OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic. Sandbox metaverse raises $20M, and achieves unicorn status while unicorn VR Chat lays off 30% of its staff. Jeri Ellsworth is co-founder of the AR tabletop game hardware company Tilt Five, which creates PC-based 3D AR board games that play on a reflective mat. Hardware is hard. Harder when it also needs great software. With Nintendo as its guiding light, against the odds, Tilt Five is building momentum.
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Ted and Charlie welcome Ori Inbar, who is celebrating AWE's 15th anniversary by moving the June 18 - 20 show from Silicon Valley to Long Beach. In the news, big raises for Pika Labs ($80M) and Twelve Labs ($50M) that can understand video. Wevr, maker of the seminal VR experience The Blu, raises $3.5M. The CEO of Sony Pictures says he is "all in" on cinematic AI. Amidst layoffs in Microsoft mixed reality, Micrososft admits the fate of the HoloLens is in the hands of the US Army. With Ori, we discussed the move to Long Beach, which will draw more of an LA crowd, his famous keynotes and tech tricks, the vision pro, the AWE Hall of Fame, and the best of AWE over the years. Palmer Lucky says he is making a new VR headset, to be revealed at the show.
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Our guest is XR consultant and thought leader, Amy Peck, CEO of EndeavorXR, but first, it's Ted's birthday, and yes, we sing (sorry). After a brief celebration, we talked about Elon's monumental $6B raise for xAI, and Google's new partnership with Magic Leap, renewing a love affair that began in 2014, when Google made a whopping $500M bet on the nascent company. As Amy joins us, Rony gives us an insider look at Magic Leap's early days. Amy's focus on enterprise applications of XR, wearables and AI, led us to a state of the industry conversation, and some thoughts about the upcoming Augmented World Expo June 18 - 20 in Long Beach, CA.
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This week our guest is Jon Vlassopulos, CEO of Napster, which is now a streaming platform with 170 M + tracks. In the news Scarjo v. OpenAI, data-tagging Scale AI snared another Billion dollar round, Series F, at a 13B valuation. Suno, the text-to-music generator, raised $125 M. A dying man is trying to clone himself in AI. Jon brings a wealth of experience in the music business, where he started as a DJ turned-Bertelsmann.
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This week Ted and Charlie celebrate episode 195 without Rony. Our guest is Matthew Celia, of Lightsail VR, who produced Eli Roth's "Faceless Lady," which is now on Meta Quest TV for those with VR headsets. It's the first stereoscopic piece of it's six-episode series. In the news, Google IO drops its Sora competitor, Veo, and using Google Maps to "paint the world with data." Open AI has made a big step in humanizing chatbots, giving them expressive voices, and reducing latency, creating an experience much like the movie "Her." Matthew walks us through the super-widescreen 180 production, the lessons they took from Cinemascope, and how they found the crazy castle location in Ireland that was their primary location.
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Charlie and Rony give the show a go without Ted, who's traveling. Very busy news week with lots of M&A activity. We talked about CoStar Group's $1.6B acquisition of 3D scanner Matterport, Lamini AI's $25M raise for secure Enterprise AI, Neurable also raised money, Gen AI company Freepik acquired hit AI upscaler Magninfic, which is also a Spanish company. There was also news about Roblox (not good), Sandbox LBVR (very good), and behind-the-scenes with Sora director Paul Trillo, on how he created a commercial music video using OpenAI's new tool. Our guest Marta Marciszewicz walks us through how AI animation company Anything World brings characters to life instantly for the games industry. Want your player character attacked by an army of spiders? They've got you covered.
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- the webpage: anything.world
- the linktree with all the links: https://linktr.ee/AnythingWorld
- X: https://twitter.com/_AnythingWorld
- Discord: https://discord.gg/N64U9RfwsJ (here we have a bot that anyone can use to try out Animate Anything and see how it works in practice for free)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/anything-world/
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_anythingworld/
- twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/anythingworld (where we have lives every week)
- TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@_anythingworld
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe4m3YtFC_Q5OhC-I5dvAzQ
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This week the hosts discuss the new lawsuits against OpenAI. After six months of hype, sentiment about the Humane AI Pin, and The Apple Vision Pro, has become increasingly negative. This week, the press went after the darling of CES 2024, the Rabbit R1, with reviews that called it "unreviewable." This week our guests are Jennifer Tuft and Cassandra Rosenthal, Co-CEOs and founders of Kaleidoco, whose critically acclaimed 3D AR show, Particle Ink, is now in residence at the Luxor in Las Vegas.
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We rescheduled Friday morning's recording for Monday night in order to bring you one of our most impressive guests ever, Yat Siu, Chairman of Animoca Brands, which has investments in Sandbox, Cool Cats, Yuga Labs, nearly two hundred other Metaverse, web3 and blockchain based companies. We do hit the news briefly before bringing in our guest. This week Perplexity AI search engine raised $63M, Meta made their Android-based spatial OS open-source, and sales concerns for the Apple Vision Pro.
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The hosts are all over Meta's release of the new MetaAI with Llama 3, now integrated across all of Meta's brands, and totally free, bringing an exceptional multimodal (does images with short animation) to nearly 4 B users. That's half the planet. Adobe is upgrading its Premiere editing suite, adding Sora for B roll, in-painting (for removing or adding images from shots), and shot extension, which adds frames to the beginning and end of shots. No guest this week, so we filled the last fifteen minutes of a relatively short show talking about Gabe Newell's BCI startup, Starfish, which is just out of stealth, and the shutdown of the enterprise VR collaboration platform Glue.
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Another episode packed with AI news, in particular an investigative NY Times piece revealing the big tech companies were aware of the copyright issues around vacuuming up the Internet. We also talked about two AI-based startups, Udio, which raised $10M for AI created music, and Spines, which raised $6M for e-book publishing. Our guest is Connell Gauld, CTO of Zappar, which makes the Zap.Works webXR development platform, the $100 Zapbox MR headset, which turns your iPhone into a Vision Pro. Connell was a great guest, nonetheless ICYMI, Zappar is our sponsor.
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This Week the hosts are talking about OpenAI's Voice Engine, which can be trained on fifteen second recording, creating profound questions about privacy and security. The guest this week is Maureen Fan, co-founder and CEO of Baobab Studios, which for eight years has been creating original content for VR, the Metaverse, and traditional media. The company's co-founder and Chief Creative Officer is Eric Darnell, director of Dreamworks' Madagascar movies.
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The hosts are joined by Liz Hyman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the XR Association (XRA), the trade association promoting the dynamic growth of the XR industry. First up in the news, Amazon doubles down on Anthropic AI as it adds $2.75B to its previous $1.25B investment. OpenAI's text-to-video generator Sora goes to Hollywood, but what will - or can - it really create? Databricks creates a competitive LLM for just $10M. Liz Hyman joins us to talk about the immersive industry associations' legislative accomplishments and the challenges facing the industry, including copyright, trademark, and patent regulations - and enforcement.
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This Week in XR "Dear Tim" episode, an SXSW (South by Southwest) feature session was recorded live in Austin 3/12/24, featuring guest Joanna Popper, former CAA, NBC and HP executive.
With the launch of the Meta Quest 3 in November, and the Apple Vision Pro in early February, we now have two competing approaches on spatial computing. The comparison to the iOS - Android mobile duopoly should be lost on no one. Many questions about the future of spatial computing are now up for discussion. What are the killer apps? What will storytellers do with the spatial medium? How quickly can Apple get to an accessible price? What wildcards are out there and, perhaps most importantly, what impact AI will have on spatial computing? https://schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP
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Ted and Charlie welcome guest Weili Dai, co-founder Marvell Technologies, Silicon Box, and MeetKai. In the news, Saudi Arabia to invest $40B in AI, Nvidia revealed its new Blackwell AI computer at its GTC Conference, which it calls "AI Woodstock." They also showed off AI for robots. The State of Unreal was the main event at the Game Developers Conference a few dozen miles up the bay in San Francisco. Fortnite paid $320 for user generated content. Apple eyes Google Gemini AI for iPhones. Our guest Weili Dai is probably the most powerful person we've had on the show. Her new company, Silicon Box, is opening factories in Singapore and Italy to make a new kind of semiconductor they call a Chiplet. She is also attacking this new AI architecture through the software startup MeetKai.com.
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Charlie and Ted, having recovered from SXSW, are back in their respective man caves, while Rony is on cell, driving through Alabama. Our SXSW panel talk will be posted in three weeks but can be found right now on the SXSW site. After a brief overview of three AI funding stories, we turned our attention back to SXSW, but other topics intruded: the potential of a TikTok ban, social media algorithms, and the ongoing OpenAI copyright mess. Our guests this week are SXSW XR experience Jury Prize Winner, Matthew Niederhauser, co-director of The Golden Key. Also joining us is Laura Mingail, a former Entertainment One executive and consultant who has been advising SXSW on XR since its beginning.
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Charlie is solo at SXSW while Ted and Rony are in transit. We'll be posting our Tuesday panel on the future of XR in the age of Apple Vision Pro at the end of next week. Not a big news week. The Sora freakout continues as they drop more tests on the socials. In AI, Haiper emerges from stealth with $13.5 M to take on Runway. Jabali raised $5M to use AI to prompt video games into existence. My guest is Lucas Martell, the Austin-based CEO of Mighty Coconut, producer of the hit VR game "Walkabout Mini Golf," which has released over two dozen courses, or DLCs, including one based on "Wallace and Gromit," which was announced today.
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Charlie and Ted are without Rony, who is driving across the country. We'll convene at SXSW in Austin to do our show live on stage with Joanna Popper in a session titled "XR in the Age of Vision Pro" on March 12th. In the news, $675M for Figure AI's humanoid robots, powered by ChatGPT, and a new text-to-video tool, Ideogram. Our guests this week are Hugh Forrest, head of programming for SXSW and Blake Kammerdiner, head of XR at SXSW who give us a wide-ranging look at this year's show. To say Ted and Charlie are fanboys would be putting it mildly.
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The hosts are in fine form as they dissect the AI boom, which will have an internet-like impact on the economy, society, and culture as the Internet, and will happen much, much faster. Nvidia's explosive earnings are a bigger news story than the US returning to the moon. That's how big it is. To discuss the complications and opportunity AI represents to higher education, our guest is Katie Conrad, Professor of English at the University of Kansas. She is the author of A Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights for Education.
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This week our guest is Susanne Haspinger, COO of Hololight. Rony's at an AI Medical conference. The big news is OpenAI's reveal of expanded memory for ChatGPT and the tease of the next Dall-E upgrade, a text-to-video app called Sora, which is capable of generating up to a minute of video from a single prompt. Nvidia, now the world's third largest company, introduced Chat RTX for PCs that will search across local files. The legal battles of OpenAI may be breaking in its favor. Susanne, who was one of the co-founders of Hololight, talks with us about Hololight's work in cloud streaming XR content and working with automakers and defense contractors on their use of the industrial metaverse, which she predicts will have major ROI and other breakthroughs in 2024.
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We recorded one of our best shows this morning with Cinematic AI Filmmakers Caleb & Shelby Ward. If you have not seen their hilarious Wes Anderson Star Wars trailer you are missing a treat. Meanwhile, the week rewarded us with some big news: Disney puts up $15B for Epic to make their game and entertainment universe, Ted is in love - with his new Apple Vision Pro, Google replaces Bard with Gemini, and deep fakes fool a Hong Kong bank into wiring $25M. Status Pro VR, Polycam 3D, Camb.ai, Atlas 3D, All Score Funding. Then Caleb and Shelby, of Curious Refuge, give us a fantastic look at the future of film.
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This week the hosts are together, live and in-person *for the first time* from the glamorous Sunset Marquis in Los Angeles. It's a propitious day on top of that, of course, as today is 2-2-24, the official launch day of the Apple Vision Pro. In addition, Meta reported a record quarter, a record dividend, a stock buyback, and a successful Christmas season for its Reality Labs division. The stock shot up fifteen percent. This is just twenty-four hours after CEO Zuck was flogged in Washington, DC (again). The plot thickens as we bring in Xreal's raise of $60M to release its Xreal Air2 Ultra, a $600 alternative to the AVP. Our guest is Tommy Palm, CEO of Resolution Games, which released a game studio on the Pro store today.
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Ted is doing his real job for Viacom today but Rony is with us, while on a ferry in Florida, en route to a secret rendezvous. In the news: Eleven Labs raising $80M for voice cloning, $6.7M for Artisse AI photo app for models and influencers, and the new Rabbit R1 a compact, toy-like $200 handheld AI "Large Action Model" that knows you and your apps. Rony says the price is so low, China must be underwriting it as part of another insidious TikTok-like scheme to steal your data. Our guest is David Weinstein, Senior Director of XR at Nvidia. He takes on a fascinating deep dive into Nvidia's XR strategy, which has four pillars: (1) photorealism, (2) AI, (3) Streaming/split rendering, and (4) collaboration, all taking place in the Omniverse, which David describes as XR's "simulation engine."
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Jason McDowall of the AR Show podcast sits in the co-host chair as Ted and Rony are traveling. They missed a great show. With Rony absent we take a deep dive into troubles at Magic Leap and how its recent raise of $590M of debt financing from its majority shareholder, Saudi Arabia, is actually bad news. If they didn't get there with the last infusion of half a billion dollars, how do they get to profitability this time around? Our guest is consultant Shelly Palmer of the Palmer Group. He is a professor at the Newhouse School, and a technology and strategy consultant to some of the biggest companies in the world, including Samsung, Meta, Ford and Nike. Shelly has deep insight into how businesses need to change and adapt to what he calls "the generative age."
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Live from CES, Charlie and Ted recap the show, the Sphere experience, Xreal's newest AR glasses, the new Sony enterprise XR pass-through HMD, healthtech and, outside the show, layoffs at Unity and Google's AR hardware team. Our guest is the original futurist, author Faith Popcorn, who was at CES on behalf of holographic telepresence company, Proto. She's made some of the biggest calls about the direction of the economy, tech and society, in the past 30 years, including the end of retail.
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This week our guest is Gary Shapiro, CEO of CES, making good on the appearance that last week was handled by the CTA's futurist, Brian Comisky. In the news, more talk about copyrights as the 1924 "Steamboat Willie'' version of Mickey Mouse enters the public domain. XReal says it sold 350K pairs of its Air2 Assisted Reality smartglasses that provide the user a big screen experience on the go using mobile devices, game consoles, tablets and laptops. AI Search engine Perplexity raised $73.6M. The Chat GPT store will open next week. Gary Shapiro talks about his forty year career with CES and how it's grown. He also talks about his experience as an industry advocate with a nuanced, legal view on intellectual property laws, which are at the center of AI like ChatGPT.
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Today our guest is, after some confusion, Brian Comisky, Futurist for CTA (which puts on CES). We start the show on a slow holiday news week with a discussion of the NY Times suit against OpenAI, apparently following unsuccessful negotiations. CES is the largest trade show in the world, with 130,000 people already registered. Brian joins us to discuss past hype cycles, future ones, and what to expect in 2024 (AI everywhere).
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This week's guest, Sarah Hill, CEO of Healium (note spelling) was guest #1 on our podcast, in July 2020. We were experimenting with both the format of the show and recording the podcast in VR. It was a relatively slow news week, except Bytedance was booted off Azure Cloud's OpenAI for using it to train its own model, which is strictly verboten. Amidst denials, they were also caught covering it up. Rony has a lot to say about China and the theft of intellectual property, which, ironically is what OpenAI itself did when it scraped the Internet to begin with. Microsoft is shutting down its Mixed Reality OS, setting off a flurry of XR hand wringing. Healium is a platform agnostic app which uses biometrics to help users control hypertension, depression, and other conditions. Their app is available on all platforms and used by the VA to treat veterans. Healium, founded ten years ago, counts the Mayo Clinic as one of its strategic investors.
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Epic games scored a $92M win over Google for its decidedly anti-competitive app store, but what's really going to hurt is changing the business model of its app store. The EU AI Act puts some rules around transparency and copyright, Mistal AI raises $415M, and Open AI makes a deal with publisher Axel Springer. Tesla introduced a humanoid robot, Optimus Gen-1. What could go wrong? Our guest is founder and CEO of ForeVR, Marcus Segal, who was formerly the COO of Zynga. He has had an extraordinary journey through the games industry, which prepared him to build one of the Meta Quest's most popular franchises, with multiplayer titles ForeVR Bowling, ForeVR Darts, and ForeVR Pool. They discuss what, and how long, it's going to take to sell one hundred million VR headsets, and increase the frequency of their use.
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In the week's news was a flurry of AI announcements. Musk's Grok AI launches, and it has promise. A real-time connection to the Internet is valuable, even if it comes from Twitter. Meta launches Imagine, a very fast, very simple, text-to-image app, and other AI features. Google unveils a new, powerful LLM, Gemini, which will succeed Bard. Our guest this week is writer-director-producer John MacInnes, who is making a horror film using Unreal Engine for Fortnite (UEFN) with the support of Epic Games. The finished film will cost about 1% of a typical studio budget.
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Our guest this week is Joe Hunting, director of the award-winning HBO documentary, "We Met in VR." The hosts think big about events in tech, from OpenAI to Twitter, to Quantum Computing, IBM and AWS before a recap of the week's news, which includes a $55M financing round for text-to-video Gen AI app Pika Labs, and funding for three companies focused on XR. Joe Hunting's debut feature documentary has drawn attention to VR Chat as a unique platform for filmmaking and performance, and he's formed Painted Cloud Productions to focus on it. Joe is also curating a new festival for films set in VR Chat, Raindance Immersive, whose second edition will be in June, 2024.
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The team is at full strength this week as we welcome Linda Jacobson, head of marketing for HaptX, the leader in VR gloves for enterprises. Rony kicks off the morning's tech news with an interesting rant about Tik-Tok, which he says is a threat to national security. Character AI is about to raise a billion dollars, mostly to train its characters, CIVIT.AI the free model repository for Stable Diffusion raised $5 M from Andressen, presumably to figure out a business plan, the tech that made Grimes' AI, Trinity, is now available on the web. The AI Pin is here. Now what? If you're interested in a deep dive into the importance of haptics to XR, don't miss this episode.
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This week our guest is Michael Beneville, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of AREA15, an immersive entertainment venue in Las Vegas, anchored by Meow Wolf's Omera Mart. First, Ted and Charlie recap busy news week, starting with Open AI's first Developer Day, and Musk's xAI announces Grok, which will incorporate a real-time newsfeed from Twitter. We have details on the AI Pin launching next week. A new free translation app, Lipdub, does voice cloning and AI-driven lip-syncing of short videos. Beneville shares some secrets of AREA15's incredible success: his passion for immersive entertainment.
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This week we're wondering how exactly the new US AI regulations are going to work, and hoping the EU will be a little more specific. In an international, open-source world, is this even possible? On the heels of a $4B investment from Amazon, Anthropic AI is now taking $2B from Amazon's competitor, Google. Xpanceo is bringing AR contact lenses back. Our guest is Amy LaMeyer, Managing Partner of the Women's XR Fund (WXR Fund). We're talking about their portfolio, the slow pace of XR adoption, and how to get more women into tech.
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This week the hosts tear into weekly earnings, more changes at Magic Leap, big tech earnings, and Peter Theil's investment in a European drone maker. Our guest is legendary music producer Albhy Galuten. As a music producer he was responsible for over a dozen number one hits. As an executive and technologist, he shepherded Universal Musical into the digital era.
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This Week in XR Special episode with Jake Zim...
Jake Zim – SVP, Virtual Reality, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPVR)
Oversees global virtual reality production and strategy for the motion picture group. Jake has produced a wide variety of interactive projects across a spectrum of distribution channels including location-based, mobile and in-home. Zim has led the development of virtual reality experiences such as the Emmy® nominated Spider-Man: Homecoming VR; Ghostbusters: Dimension; The Emoji Movie VR Experience; Can You Walk The Walk; Hotel Transylvania Popstic VR; Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son; Jumanji: Reverse The Curse; and the Spider-Man: Far From Home VR Experience, the world’s first multiplayer VR game powered by 5G. Most recently, he led the production of Zombieland: Headshot Fever and is leading the team producing the highly-anticipated Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord, launching on October 26, 2023.
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Charlie and Rony do the news while Ted is at Sony with SVP Jake Zim, playing their new “Ghostbusters” VR game. In the news this week, Charlie’s hot take on Quest 3, Mojo Vision gets its mojo back, raising another $21.4 M. Universal music sues Anthropic AI.
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This week's tech news starts with an unhappy topic, as we explore the impact of the Hamas War, particularly on the Israeli tech sector. Unity CEO John Riccitello exits under a cloud; big layoffs at Qualcomm in San Diego. The bright side includes rave reviews of the Meta Quest 3 and new competitor to Meta's Ray-Ban Stories, Carrera, which uses Amazon's Alexa for smart glasses. Our guest this week is Meron Gribetz, founder and CEO of Inner Cosmos, which uses a brain-computer interface to treat patients with chronic depression and other disorders. His Digital Pill is a penny-sized device slipped under the skin.
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This week it's all Ted and Rony, as Charlie and the guest were nixed by travel trouble. Top topic is wearable AI, like Humane's AI pin, which has a micro projector for visual data, projected on a table or your hand. Mr. Beast and Tom Hanks were Deep Faked. The importance of authentication, says Rony, is growing exponentially. Ted shares his impressions of Quest 3.
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This week was packed with XR and AI news, starting with the formal introduction of the $500 Meta Quest 3, upgraded audio Ray Ban smart glasses, and AI integrations with Instagram. Also in the news, Amazon's multi-billion dollar investment in Anthropic, the AI startup whose Claude AI is a ChatGPT competitor. Our guests, Banks Boutee and Max Burman, are the co-founders of KitBash3D which makes premium assets for movies and video games like "Terminator" and "The Last of Us."
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This week we're musing about the sad fate of NFTs, the race to build AI co-pilots, Neuralink human trials, and the new Caleb Wood GenAI Star Wars fan scene. Our guest is Michael Freeman, co-founder of Ocutrx, which is launching an AR HMD, the Oculenz, that will help macular degeneration patients see.
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The boys are back with Space Aliens, AI in the US Senate, Text to Audio from Stability AI, and the Army resurrects its HoloLens for infantry AR project, IVAS. Our guest is entrepreneur Anna Belova, founder and CEO of Devar.
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No big financing news but the holiday-shortened week brought up important topics, notably a ruling on an award-winning AI-generated image. There were a couple of juicy hardware rumors: Nintendo/Google and Meta/LG, which leads to a discussion of Meta vs. Apple brand strategy. Say hello to 'Ajax,' Apple's private LLM, which may be the future of Siri. Our guest is Curtis Hickman, Chief Creative Officer of the Void and the author of the new book, "Hyper-Reality: The Art of Designing Impossible Experiences."
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This week we're talking about OpenAI's one billion dollars in revenue, up from a measly 28 million in 2022. They've got plenty of competition, including Tel Aviv-based AI21, which just raised another $155 M to compete with their business offering. We also get into VRChat and Meta Horizon's new mobile apps, and the announcement the Magic Leap One Creators' Edition won't be supported after 2024, whatever that means. Our guest is Michael Mack, CEO and owner of Europa Park, the second-largest theme park in Europe, hosting six million visitors a year. The Park recently added a free-roam VR attraction, as well as an interactive restaurant, Adrenaline.
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A slow week at the end of the summer, punctuated by blockbuster earnings from Nvidia, the primary beneficiary of the AI boom, at least for now. Rony thinks they could be a ten trillion dollar company in five years. Our guest is Anurupa Ganguly, the founder of Prisms, a VR learning platform for middle and high school students. She's an MIT-trained engineer who taught in Boston Public Schools where she identified the need, and the opportunity, to transform math and science instruction with VR. Prisms has proven itself by sending test scores through the roof, and they are now planning to roll out additional subjects.
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Slow news week gave us a lot of time with our guest, Walter Parkes, academy-award-winning producer and co-founder and Chairman of Dreamscape location-based VR, and Dreamscape Learn, a joint venture with ASU to create immersive learning centers around the world. Walter talks about his movies, the founding of Dreamscape, and its spin-off Dreamscape Learn.
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Our guest this week is Inga Petryaevskaya, founder and CEO of ShapesXR, an app that enables you to prototype XR experiences in VR. They just raised an $8.6 round. Also in the news this week, Neuralink scores $280M to continue developing its brain implant, now being distastefully tested on chimps. Leia3D acquires competitor Dimenco, and Immersed going public through a SPAC.
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Our guest is "Ready Player One" screenwriter Zak Penn. He is also a prolific filmmaker, earning nerd cred with the doc "Atari, Game Over." In the news this week, Siggraph's 50th kicks off in LA, $50M in funding for Inworld's AI NPCs, Virtuix (omnidirectional VR treadmill) raised $5M, and Hologate, the most successful LBVR company in the world, raised $8M.
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This week we're talking about Meta's reported losses on the Metaverse, Sam Altman's Worldcoin, a company that scans your eyes to confirm you're human, like Blade Runner. Our guest is Rob Tercek, author of Vaporized, and social entrepreneur, who is working on a project to create regional tech hubs to foster innovation in 3D technologies in places like Santa Fe, Charleston and Little Rock by bringing together local governments, universities and private industry.
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This week the hosts are grappling with text-to-episode GenAI just released by the Simulation (formerly Fable Studio). Dan Olson, creator of the "Folding Ideas" YouTube channel and the film "Follow the Line," a debunking of crypto, which has garnered 11M views. The follow-up, "The Future is a Dead Mall," which takes on the Metaverse, earned 3M views. Olson schools the hosts on these topics, the future of AI, and the tech hype cycle. Dan's new movie tells the story of Meme stocks.
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What writers and actors fear about AI, Zuck's Threads, Elon's X, and Roblox VR. Guest Shawn Frayne, CEO of Looking Glass Factory, who talks about their 3D displays and their new AI driven holographic characters, Lifeforms. Chatbots made of light. Listener question: "What is XR's killer app?"
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The Zuck - Musk cage match, Threads v Twitter, is on, but it may play out in court. Our guest this week is the legendary Ken Bretschneider, founder of the Evermore and Grid theme parks, and co-founder of The VOID. He gave us a good taste of why he's been so successful at creating unmatched experiences: he thinks big.
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Charlie and Ted celebrate show #150 by talking with Rony about Augmedics' big raise for its X-vision AR wearable that uses a patient's skin as a projection surface. Also, Google kills its AR project "Iris" (again), and Pokemon Go producer Niantic's layoffs. Our guests are David Ganek and Joel Newton, who co-founded City Lights, a VR Studio that finances, produces and distributes VR Experiences like "Spheres." They share details about their newest production "Yosemite," which uses photogrammetry to capture impossible spatial views of the park, coupled with its greatest stories.
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Rony is off again but this week we had a great conversation with guests Kylan Gibbs, founder and CPO, and Academy Award Winner John Gaeta, CCO of inWorld.ai, which enables game designers to create independent AI characters who interact with players in a video game. In the news, the Elon-Zuck "cage match," Kobold AI mining raises $200M, Elven Labs $19M, and Second Life turns 20!
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Charlie and Ted, and everyone else, are still talking about the Apple Vision Pro, even as three AI start-ups land over $450 M between them. One of them is four weeks old! Our guests this week are Dr. Simon Taylor, Co-Founder & Chief R&D Officer, and Kirk Ewing, Co-Founder & General Manager of Zapbox, here to introduce the new $80 AR headset, ZapBox.
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Ted and Rony rip into Apple Vision Pro as they dig into the future of spatial computing. Guest is producer Ed Saatchi, founder of Fable Studio (“Wolves in the Walls”), creator of virtual (AI) beings, and an upcoming movie created exclusively with AI.
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A brief recap of AWE, the surprise reveal of the Quest 3, and the upcoming launch of the Apple Reality One are the topics this week, followed by on-site interviews from AWE in Santa Clara with Unity CEO John Riccitiello and Hugo Swart, VP and GM of Qualcomm.
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This week Charlie and Ted are going old style - without Rony, who joined us last fall. Charlie and Rony are having a fireside at AWE next week. The news conversation includes Anthropic's $50M raise for its Claude chatbot, Meta licensing Magic Leap tech, Nreal rebrands to XReal, launches new Beam 3DOF headset and director Doug Liman launches Area 15, a mobile AR experience to the app stores.
Our guest this week is Artur Sychov, founder and CEO of Somnium Space, a SocialVR platform with a decentralized virtual economy based on blockchain with its own utility token called CUBE. The Czech company is also introducing their own VR headset called Somnium VR1 in collaboration with Vrgineers.
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In the wake of OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman's plea for regulation in a Senate hearing, the hosts question whether this is even possible. Also in the news is the launch of Sightful's new screenless Spacetop, which uses Nreal Light smart glasses as a display. Disney is closing its Star Wars hotel. Our guest is Ori Inbar, Executive Producer of AWE, who gives us a preview of the world's largest conference focused on XR, May 31 - June 2nd in Silicon Valley.
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This week's top stories are Google I/O and the launch of PokemonGo maker Niantic's new mobile AR Game, Peridot. Our guest is entrepreneur and NYU Professor Joost van Dreunen, game industry expert and author of One Up. We discuss the Metaverse, AI in games, consolidation, Microsoft's acquisition of Activision, and the future of VR games.
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The hosts are their own guests in this second week after Ted's open heart surgery. There was no XR news so we jumped right into AI. Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic were at the White House to meet with the President and Vice-President. This comes as Jim Hinton, an AI pioneer, left Google to warn the public about AI's potential to flood the world with disinformation and destroy democracy by creating confusion about what is real.
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Ted heroically co-hosts four days after open heart surgery. Lots of talk about AI this morning, Charlie's new "AI Weekly" column in Forbes, Replit AI Github-like scored $97 M, and Hugging Face launches. The guest is Anand Agarawala, co-founder and CEO of cross-platform collaboration and world hosting space, Spatial.io, which recently integrated with Unity. They have effectively replaced the role of AltSpaceVR (RIP). AI is going to play a big role in their future.
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Rony and Charlie take a journey into the heart of Roblox with Product VP Raj Bhatia while Ted's recovering from surgery. This week the hosts share hot takes on five XR/Metaverse funding announcements (what recession?), Snap's Partner Summit, and YouTube tech critic Dan Olson.
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Ted picked up RSV or something worse on his travels to Augusta and points east. He's on the mend after a scary stay in the ICU, but he has been there for FIVE days. This week we talk about VR's top ten, and welcome guest Sid Odedra, Head of UI/UX of AUDI who's been using the Magic Leap 2 to visualize the future of the automotive experience.
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Charlie does the news solo as Ted was late because he couldn't find a place to talk at The Masters golf tournament where smartphones, even in airplane mode, are not allowed. Rony is off for Passover. In the news this week, funding for display companies, Mojo Vision and OQmented. Styly, an AR company digitizing the physical world, and Sony's new 3D display.
Our guest is James Kaplan, CEO of MeetKai, a browser-based Metaverse company that uses AI to assist content creation.
The company was co-founded by Weilei Dai, the founder of Marvell Technologies.
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This week our guest is Mathieu Nouzareth, CEO of the Sandbox metaverse.
In the news and on our minds this week are Epic's Fortnite metaverse, Disney's dead metaverse, Apple's Reality One, Pico's Tik Tok problem, and Fat Boy Slim's amazing VR concert in EngageVR.
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This week we're talking about GDC, Epic's "State of Unreal," its Fab new asset store, its virtual economy, and now users can upload content from UE5 into Fortnite. Spatial is doing something similar with Unity. Also, Luma 3D AI, Second Life mobile, and Adobe introduces Firefly AI. Our guest is CEO Steve Zhao of SandboxVR, a chain of 43 VR centers worldwide.
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Ted and Charlie made good on their promise to record a special edition of the podcast this afternoon to finish their conversation about the multidisciplinary social musical mash-up that denizens call South-by. More about Leia 3D Lume Pad, Holokit, and meet Miroki, a helpful robot with a cartoon face.
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Charlie and Ted are back with tales from SXSW. In the news: Meta layoffs, Adept AI's massive round, JP Morgan Payments backed Tilia raises $22M for metaverse currency and the Apple XR launch. Our guests are Karen Palmer, producer, and director of “Consensus Gentium” a smartphone movie that won first place at SXSW for Best XR Experiences Cameron Kostopoulos, whose VR experience “Body of Mine” won the special XR Jury Prize, and Roman Rappak of Miro Shot, which performed a sold out mixed reality concert in Austin.
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Charlie is live in Austin at SXSW and Ted soon will be. Our guest is Blake Kammerdiener, who's responsible for programming the XR Exhibition. Also up this week, RIP Altspace, Pimax Hi-Res HMD scores $30M, Live, free Rec Room music festival.
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This week we're talking about Mobile World Congress, Xiaomi's AR smart glasses, Meta's product roadmap, Hexa 3D and the AI driven conversion of 2D photos into 3D assets. Our guest, Qualcomm VP Hugo Swart, will be joining us from MWC in Barcelona, to talk about Qualcomm's dual compute, carrier partnerships and Snapdragon Spaces.
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The hosts are focused on AI this week, and in particular its application to immersive media. Bigscreen's making a VR HMD, and guest Alex Herrity, CEO of Anima, has launched a line of AI enabled virtual pets which you see and interact with in AR. Rony's full of startup advice for his developing business.
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This week we're talking about real Holograms, Realwear's $375M SPAC, and $50M new financing for Light Field Lab, whose CEO Jon Karafin is our guest. Mawari and Looking Glass also raised money this week. More layoffs hit the depleted mixed reality group Microsoft. Rony says he thinks XR is doing a big exhale. Karafin's Light Field Lab means Holograms, and Rony knows a lot about this topic, too. Ted is scouting new tech for the six new theme parks Paramount Global, and is planning a trip to San Jose to see LightField Holograms in the Lab, too.
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On this week's podcasts the hosts talk about Meta (as always), the stock buyback, and the share spike; Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google are working with Meta and Microsoft to make an AR headset; what will the Apple device really look like? Our guest is HoloLens co-inventor and head of the XR Guild, Avi Bar-Zeev, who talks with us about Apple, Assisted Reality, why AR needs AI and the ethics of XR.
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Our guest is Michael Wolf, CEO of Activate, which does strategy consulting for big tech and media companies. He is the former COO of MTV. This week we're talking about tech layoffs and retrenchment, entertainment and games, story worlding, Gemba, Dreamscape, and practical victories in enterprise XR, growth (or lack thereof) for XR, What's happening with the Metaverse, the potential of AI to change everything.
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This week in XR news Apple, Microsoft, pull back from spatial computing. Not so fast, says guest Dan Robinson, CEO of Red 6, which has built AR enabled combat and other training sims into real aircraft.
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This week the hosts are joined by Jeri Ellsworth, Founder, and CEO, of Tilt 5.
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Charlie and Ted recap CES from Las Vegas. They review the show in general and XR in specific. HTC introduced the Vive XR Elite stand-alone. Assisted Reality finally delivers. There were more, better haptics, dramatic advances in waveguide optics, and 3D without glasses.
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Charlie interviews Alvin Graylin, China President (HTC), and Author, Neil Stephenson (Lamina1) about their work on Vive Metaverse (Viveverse)! CES 2023.
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Our guest today is Dean Takahashi, the dean of XR and Metaverse writers. He joins the hosts to talk about the biggest stories of 2022, including crypto reckoning, AI, Meta, John Carmak, HTC, Sony, and the tech recession. Next year, says Rony Abovitz, will be the year of AI. "You ain't seen nothing yet," predicts the Magic Leap founder.
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This week the hosts cover the FTC's wrongheaded lawsuit to block Meta's acquisition of Within, Snap Lensfest and the creator economy, and Gorillaz live location-based AR concert. With guest Hendrik Witt we explored Teamviewer's acquisition of his company, Ubimax, business applications of the enterprise Metaverse, and how AI can change the game for enterprise applications of AR.
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This week there are no guests on the show, the hosts will be speaking about news and XR.
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This week the hosts are joined by Troy Jones and Andrew Hawkins, co-founders of Status Pro, creator of NFL Pro Era VR game.
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This week the hosts are joined by Reggie Fils-Aimé, former CEO of Nintendo North America, and author of Disrupting the Game.
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This week's host Ted Schilowitz and guest host Rony Abovitz speak with Milica Zec, Chief Metaverse Officer at InfiniteWorld.
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This week the hosts are joined by Lyron Bentovin, CEO and Tyler Gates, Chief Futurist, Glimpse Group.
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This week the hosts are joined by Caspar Thykier, co-founder, and CEO, Zappar.
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This week the hosts are joined by Lucas Martell, CEO of Mighty Coconut, Creator of Walkabout Mini Golf.
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This week the hosts are joined by Drew Perkins, CEO, co-founder, Mojo Vision.
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This week the hosts are joined by Amy LaMeyer, the General Partner of The Women's XR Fund.
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This week the hosts do not have a guest.
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This week the hosts are joined by Tipatat Chernavasian, the General Partner of The Venture Reality Fund.
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This week the hosts do not have a guest.
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This week the hosts are joined by John Gaeta, Chief Creative Officer, InWorld AI.
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This week the hosts are joined by Tony Parisi, Head of Strategy at Lamina 1.
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This week the hosts are joined by Alex Heath, Deputy Editor, The Verge.
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This week the hosts are joined by Catherine Henry SVP Media Monks.
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This week the hosts are joined by Marcie Jastrow, Shiba Inu Metaverse advisor.
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This week the hosts are joined by Matt Miesnieks, CEO of Living Cities.
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This week the hosts are joined by Jason Warnke, Accenture’s Senior Managing Director for Global IT and Digital Experiences Lead.
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This special episode our hosts sit down with Matthew Ball, Author of The Metaverse, and How It Will Revolutionize Everything.
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This week the hosts are joined by Steve Grubbs, founder and CEO, VictoryXR!
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This week the hosts are joined by Quinn Taber, CEO of Immerse!
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This week the hosts are joined by Andy Zimmerman, CEO Journey, and Cathy Hackl, Journey's Chief Metaverse Officer.
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TWIXR presents a special Lamina1 Episode with. Neal Stephenson and Peter Vessenes.
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This week the hosts are joined by Justin Barad, Founder and CEO of Osso VR. Thank you to our sponsor, Virbela!
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This week the hosts are joined by Vicki Dobbs Beck, Head of ILMxLab! Thank you to our sponsor, Virbela!
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This week the hosts are reporting live from AWE 2022. In this special episode of TWIXR, Charlie and Ted will be interviewing the following: Rama Oruganti, Chief Product Officer, RealWear, Tony Vitillo, Blogger & Developer, and Jeremy Kenisky, CTO, Exalter.
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This week the hosts are reporting live from AWE 2022. In this special episode of TWIXR, Charlie and Ted will be interviewing the following: Alvin Graylin, President HTC China, Anne McKinnon, CEO Ristband, and Brian Vogelsang, XR Strategy, Qualcomm.
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This week the hosts are reporting live from AWE 2022. In this special episode of TWIXR, Charlie and Ted will be interviewing the following: Shawn Frayne, CEO, Looking Glass, Ashley Crowder, CEO, Vntana, and Avi Bar Zeev, CTO, Reality Prime.
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This week the hosts are reporting live from AWE 2022. In this special episode of TWIXR, Charlie and Ted will be interviewing the following: David Fattal, CEO, Leia, April Robinson, co-CEO, KP9, and Jay Wright, CEO, Campfire.
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This week the hosts are reporting live from AWE 2022. In this special episode of TWIXR, Charlie and Ted will be interviewing the following: Alan Smithson, CEO, MetaVrse, Pearly Chen, VP, HTC, Devon Copley, CEO Avatour.
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This week the hosts are reporting live from AWE 2022. In this special episode of TWIXR, Charlie and Ted will be interviewing the following: John Riccitiello, CEO Unity, Jeri Ellsworth, CEO Tilt5, and Jason Yim, CEO Trigger Global.
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This week the hosts are joined by Ori Inbar, co-founder and Executive Director of AWE. Thank you to our sponsor, Virbela!
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This week the hosts are joined by Rony Abovitz, founder and CEO of Sun & Thunder, and founder of Magic Leap! Thank you to our sponsor, Virbela!
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This week the hosts are joined by Brad Oberwager, Exec Chair, Linden Lab (Second Life)! Thank you to our sponsor, Virbela!
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This week the hosts are joined by Steve Sinclair, SVP Product & Marketing, Mojo Vision! Thank you to our sponsor, Virbela!
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This week the hosts sit down with Nonny de la Pena, Founding Director, Narrative and Emerging Media at ASU; Founder, Emblematic Group; Award winning VR Filmmaker and Journalist!
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This week the hosts are joined by Mike Boland, CEO & Chief Analyst of ARtillery Intelligence! Thank you to our sponsor, Virbela!
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This week our hosts sit down with Alex Howland, Founder and President of Virbela. Virbela is the show's sponsor and we just wanted to give a big thanks for their amazing support of the show!
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This week the hosts sit down with special guest TFMJonny! TFMJonny is a content creator, VTuber, and Musician!
His content creator journey started with an idea, could he perform live music in a full-body motion-captured avatar? His content has grown so much since then, pushing the boundaries of what a VTuber and Musician can be on Youtube, Twitch, and Tiktok!
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Enjoy spirited banter about the week's spatial computing news with Paramount Pictures Futurist Ted Schilowitz, Forbes Tech columnist Charlie Fink. This week is a special Holiday Episode featuring guests Ben Lang (Road to VR) , Anne McKinnon (The Boolean) , Scott Stein (CNet), and Dean Takahashi (Venture Beat) !
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This week's episode features Rony Abovitz, American entrepreneur and CEO of Sun and Thunder!
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This week's episode features Faisal Galaria, CEO of Blippar!
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This week's special Thanksgiving episode is from the Infinity Festival where hosts Ted and Charlie join Vicki Dobbs Beck, Head of ILMxLab, talking about the future of entertainment!
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The guest this week is bestselling author, Blake Harris, of "The History of the Future and "Console Wars" !
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The guest this week is Brian Vogelsang, Head of Qualcomm Snapdragon Spaces!
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The guest this week is Jon Snoddy, SVP,Walt Disney Imagineering Technology & Engineering Studio.
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The guest this week is Jim Heppelmann, CEO of PTC, a very large public company that is the world leader in the digital transformation, industrial loT, and XR first.
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The guest this week is Paul Travers, CEO and founder of Vuzix, the AR headset maker!
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The guest this week is Brett Leonard, director, entrepreneur, and co-founder of "Virtual Psychedelics"!
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The guest this week is Tim Ruse, CEO of Zero Latency!
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The guest this week is Philip Rosedale, founder of Secondlife!
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Enjoy spirited banter about the week's spatial computing news with Paramount Pictures Futurist Ted Schilowitz, Forbes Tech columnist Charlie Fink. The guest this week is Mike Pell, Chief Envisioneer of Microsoft Garage.
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Enjoy spirited banter about the week's spatial computing news with Paramount Pictures Futurist Ted Schilowitz, Forbes Tech columnist Charlie Fink. The guest this week is Mike Boland.
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Enjoy spirited banter about the week's spatial computing news with Paramount Pictures Futurist Ted Schilowitz, Forbes Tech columnist Charlie Fink. The guest this week is Kevin Kelly!
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Enjoy spirited banter about the week's spatial computing news with Paramount Pictures Futurist Ted Schilowitz, Forbes Tech columnist Charlie Fink. The guest this week is Ori Inbar, CEO of AWE.
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Enjoy spirited banter about the week's spatial computing news with Paramount Pictures Futurist Ted Schilowitz, Forbes Tech columnist Charlie Fink. The guest this week is HTC China President, Alvin Graylin.
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Enjoy spirited banter about the week's spatial computing news with Paramount Pictures Futurist Ted Schilowitz, Forbes Tech columnist Charlie Fink. The guest this week is Ben Lang, Author at Road to VR.
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Enjoy spirited banter about the week's spatial computing news with Paramount Pictures Futurist Ted Schilowitz, Forbes Tech columnist Charlie Fink. The guest this week is Matthew Ball, "Metaverse Manifesto" writer.
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Enjoy spirited banter about the week's spatial computing news with Paramount Pictures Futurist Ted Schilowitz, Forbes Tech columnist Charlie Fink. The guest this week is David Whelan, CEO of Engage.
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Enjoy spirited banter about the week's spatial computing news with Paramount Pictures Futurist Ted Schilowitz, Forbes Tech columnist Charlie Fink. The guest this week is Rony Abovitz, Founder of Magic Leap.
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Enjoy spirited banter about the week's spatial computing news with Paramount Pictures Futurist Ted Schilowitz, Forbes Tech columnist Charlie Fink. The guest this week is Roy Taylor from Ryff.
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Enjoy spirited banter about the week's spatial computing news with Paramount Pictures Futurist Ted Schilowitz, Forbes Tech columnist Charlie Fink. The guest this week is Josh Wehrly from Rec Room!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR! The guest this week is Michael Levine from Happy Giant!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR! The guest this week is John Canning from Digital Domain!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR! The guest this week is Loren Hammonds from the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR! The guest this week is Jason McDowall from The AR Show and Ostendo!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR! The guests this week are Kim Adams and Max Planck from Adventure Lab!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR! The guests this week are Cathy Hackl and John Buzzell!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR!
Our Guest this week to talk about his projects is Cory Grenier.
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR!
Our Guest this week to talk about his projects is Gabe Baker.
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR!
Our Guest this week to talk about his projects is Kyle Jackson!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR!
Our Guest this week to talk about his projects is Dean Takahashi!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR!
Our Guest this week to talk about his projects is Brendan Bradley!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR!
Our Guest this week to talk about his current position as Head of US Business Dev. for Engage, Chris Madsen.
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR!
Our Guests this week to talk about their current projects are Doug Jacobson and Athena Demos!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR!
Our Guest this week to talk about his current projects is Sinan Alrubaye!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR!
Our Guest this week to talk about her current projects is Chandra Devam!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR!
Our Guest this week to talk about her current projects is Milica Zec!
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR.
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Cathy Hackl joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR: Metaverses and Mars Rover
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Eric Shamlin joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR!
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CEO of Living Popups Cheryl Bayer joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR!
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Founder of SAM Immersive Louisa Spring joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR!
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Global Head of VR Go-to-market for HP, Joanna Popper joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR: Tech and Politics, LBVR, Save Google Poly
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Television Academy Governor and Story Tech Principal Lori H. Schwartz joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR: CES
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Cathy Hackl joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR: Top Tech Stories of 2020
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CMO and CRO of Evercast Marcie Jastrow joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR: Rec Room and Roblox and the current state of VR for the future.
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR: Big Music Makes Big Money, Holographic Displays, VR sees things better than you do
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Global Head of VR Go-to-market for HP, Joanna Popper joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR: HP Reverb G2, Roblox IPO, Apple App Store, Thanksgiving
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Managing Partner at The WXR Fund Amy LaMeyer joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR: Quest 2 launch, iPhone 12, Snap Augments the World.
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ARIS MD CEO Chandra Devam joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR: AR Dogs, NASA and XR, and Zapbox.
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Ted and Charlie discuss this week in XR: Ethics and Politics of Facebook, Tiktok, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and Ads, Quest 2 Reviews
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Global Head of VR Go-to-market for HP, Joanna Popper joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR: HP Reverb G2, Microsoft buys Zenimax Media, Dreamscape, Unity IPO, Quest 2, Tiktok, Sidequest, Venice Film Festival Awards
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General Magic Director, Sarah Kerruish joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR: General Magic, Tiktok, Facebook Connect
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Futurist and artist, Zenka joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR: TikTok, Apple, Snapchat, nReal, Minecraft, HTC Vive, Magic Leap
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Head of Altspace, Katie Kelly joins Ted and Charlie to discuss this week in XR: TikTok and Walmart, Unity IPO, Sunsetting Oculus brand?, Epic v. Apple (cont.), Facebook Horizons, Burning Man in Altspace
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En liten tjänst av I'm With Friends. Finns även på engelska.